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...uneasy New Year for Adolf Hitler. Something was rotten in the German Army. The Führer had just relieved Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch from his command (TIME, Dec. 29) and was now, in fact as well as title, the Oberste Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht (Supreme Commander of the Army). But the Oberste Befehlshaber could scarcely have felt as magnificent as his title...
...wildest rumor, soon exposed, claimed that Field Marshal von Brauchitsch had flown like a Hess to Ireland. But other rumors came in a persistent, persuasive flood from the listening posts of Europe...
...weirdest proclamations in his extended career of weird utterances, Adolf Hitler last week fired Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch and himself took over the job of Commander in Chief of the German Army: "When the Führer on Feb. 4, 1938 assumed commanding power over the whole armed forces, this was done out of concern for the then threatening military struggle for the freedom of the German people. "In addition, the realization of an inward call and his own will to take upon himself the responsibility weighed with the statesman Adolf Hitler when he resolved...
...spoke up. They claimed that General von Kleist had thrown away nine divisions: the 13th, 14th and 16th Panzer divisions; the 60th motorized; the Viking and Adolf Hitler Leibstandarte SS divisions; the 76th, 94th and 97th Infantry divisions. It was said that Commander in Chief Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had gone to the southern front to help put a stop to the rout. But the figure on casualties claimed to have been suffered by all these divisions was 23,000, the normal strength of only one and a half infantry divisions. This would have made casualties through the nine...
Hitler was willing to talk to Mussolini a long time alone in a tent. Escorted by armored cars and mobile anti-aircraft guns, they motored over vast stretches of the battle line, visited the intense German Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch, encountered wrecked villages, Russian war debris, black mud where soldiers had to push their car. One day they flew down to the Ukraine to see Italian troops attacking Russia under the command of German Field Marshal von Rundstedt. For a while they shared the soldiers' soup and black bread, allowed themselves to be photographed by respectful infantrymen. Flying...